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Some advice for anyone interested in applying for the final year of Abreu / Sistema Fellows at NEC
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No silver bullets – on the nature of “Proof”
May 16, 2012
The social power of music is something we hold to be good and true. And in many ways, this is greater proof than any study
Opera-ting outside the lines
May 9, 2012
The manner in which we engage with art often divorces it entirely from its social origins: orchestra and opera companies deliver performances in great temples before catatonic worshipers, popular music concerts are presented at exorbitant – nay, elitist ticket prices in massive stadia that reinforce social isolation, rather than reducing it.
El Sistema, Special Needs and Music Therapy – new article now available online
April 25, 2012
Although Sistema and music therapy are not entirely analogous, there's a very natural, organic overlap between the two. We see this common ground in the vocabulary Sistema-inspired programs use to describe their activities and their impact, and how it often emphasizes the development of the individual as much as the community.
Them’s the breaks
April 17, 2012
This is the framework in which they can satisfy their own curiosity, when they'll expand their technique while they discover the neat tricks or sounds they can create with their instruments, and find out just how capable they are of growing on their own.
It ain’t all Sistema
April 11, 2012
Is it possible that there’s a unifying theory of tempo for a ten movement work? I say there is, and I dedicated the article to Maestro José Antonio Abreu, because the solution I propose would make an economist smile
Drink up! Reflections and video from Ottawa.
April 6, 2012
the nature of advocacy: not changing what people say, but what people do. The image of the bureaucrat gleefully snatching violins out of the hands of infants is a myth. Treating public officials, or those who just don't get it, with scorn and derision invites a similar degree of disrespect and disregard in return
Report and Gallery from Ottawa
April 4, 2012
The Venezuelans don't do "conferences," they do "seminarios", their word for "high intensity short-term music camps." Making music is a central part of the experience. It's not about the teachers, it's about the kids and the music.
Sistema weekend in Ottawa
March 27, 2012
March might have come in like a lamb, after the mildest winter Boston (my place of residence) has seen in decades, but it’s going out like a lion thanks to the Leading Note Foundation Symposium on Social Change through Music in Ottawa this weekend. If you haven’t registered, there’s still time. Information is available… [Read more…]
“If you think education is expensive…”
March 22, 2012
Until education is viewed as the acquisition of multiple literacies for life-long learning rather than the timely regurgitation of factoids for standardized testing, music can’t compete in the educational sphere
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